#BigBillionDaysSale: Flipkart Sells Half A Million Handsets In 10 Hours

15/10/2015 1:01 PM IST
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Flipkart's application loading page, displayed on an Apple Inc. iPhone 5c, is reflected on a window in an arranged photograph in Hong Kong, China, on Wednesday, May 21, 2014. Flipkart, India's largest online retailer, will buy competitor Myntra.com, according to people with knowledge of the talks, to gain a business with higher margins and strengthen its position in the local market against Amazon.com Inc. Photographer: Brent Lewin/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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NEW DELHI -- E-commerce major Flipkart today said it has sold half a million mobile handsets within 10 hours as part of its The Big Billion Days sale.

"This sets a record for the highest number of mobile phones sold in India in a short period of ten hours in any platform, either online or offline," Flipkart said in a statement.

Flipkart's Big Billion Days festive sale started on October 13 and will end on October 17. The sale of mobile phones opened on midnight yesterday.

While metros like Bengaluru, Delhi and Mumbai led in terms of the sales, Flipkart said it saw a huge surge of interest from tier II cities with Nagpur, Indore, Coimbatore, Vishakhapatnam and Jaipur leading in sales.

The Bengaluru-based firm said the platform also saw huge sales of 4G-enabled devices.

"75 per cent of the phones sold during the ten hours period were 4G phones," it added.

"It has been a blockbuster beginning for our mobile category sale. The half a million mobile handsets sale record is truly a testament to the growing demand for smartphones in India," Mukesh Bansal, Head of Commerce Platform, Flipkart said.